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San Francisco 49ers: 2026 Schedule & Season Tracker

The complete 2026 slate with rest edges and schedule context, the 2025 ledger, and the franchise record since 1999 — every number computed from the bundled nflverse game log.

By C. B. Zakarian · Updated July 29, 2026

The San Francisco 49ers enter 2026 off a 12–5 season. Their 2026 opponents went a combined 143–145–1 in 2025 (a .497 strength of schedule, 18 of 32 — the naive prior-year method, whose real forecast error we measured here). The calendar hands them a net rest differential of 0 days (17 of 32), with week 2 (+3), week 9 (+7), week 12 (-7), week 14 (-3), week 16 (+4), week 17 (-3); the bye falls in week 8, they play 2 Thursday games, and 1 of their final four games are divisional. Rest-edge context lives in the schedule-quirks explainer.

2026 schedule

Results fill in automatically as the bundled nflverse game log updates; until a game is played its result column shows a dash.

WkDateOpponentRest edgeNotesResult
1Sep 10at Los Angeles RamsDIV Thu
2Sep 20vs Miami Dolphins+3
3Sep 27vs Arizona CardinalsDIV
4Oct 4vs Denver Broncos
5Oct 11at Seattle SeahawksDIV
6Oct 19vs Washington CommandersMon
7Oct 25at Atlanta Falcons-1
9Nov 8vs Las Vegas Raiders+7
10Nov 15at Dallas Cowboys
11Nov 22vs Minnesota Vikings
12Nov 29vs Seattle Seahawks-7DIV
13Dec 6at New York Giants
14Dec 13vs Los Angeles Rams-3DIV
15Dec 17at Los Angeles ChargersThu
16Dec 27at Kansas City Chiefs+4
17Jan 3vs Philadelphia Eagles-3
18Jan 10at Arizona CardinalsDIV

The 2025 ledger

Final record 12–5, 437 points scored against 371 allowed (+66). Home 5–3, road 7–2. One-score games (decided by 8 or fewer): 5–1 — the split most likely to regress either way, per the Pythagorean explainer.

Franchise baseline, 1999–2025

Across the 27 seasons in our game log the franchise is 211–225–1 (.484). Best season in the window: 2011 (13–3); leanest: 2004 (2–14). Franchise moves are joined under the current code (SF), so older seasons include predecessor cities where applicable.

Sources: nflverse public game log bundled at data/games.csv (schedule, rest, and results; retrieved July 2026 — in-season updates refresh this page's results column). No projections, no invented numbers: this page reports the schedule and the record, and links the analysis.